Since I’m sharing 2025 work for #artAdventCalendar, another thing I did this year was make a large collection of repeat patterns, like this Velvet worm repeat pattern! Putting more invertebrate linocuts into surface design!
These adorable, caterpillar-like blue velvet worm from New Zealand (Aotearoa). Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture and somewhat wormlike appearance. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #pattern #surfaceDesign #invertebrates #velvetWorm
Day 10 #ArtAdventCalendar
I like to take shapes, gestural motifs, and colours from my abstracted paintings and rework them into surface designs. This one is Ruska 2 v2 Blue, as printed on cotton percale in 2023. (I ordered it from CottonBee, and it is available on other fabrics via Spoonflower.)
Another #invertebrate repeat pattern for #invertefest! This one is made with might linocut #Beetles. My print shows, from left to right, top to bottom: Goliath beetle, Calligrapha verrucosa, blowout tiger beetle, Fruhstorferia sexmaculata, Phaedon oviformis, Reindeer beetle, Ceratophyus martinez, Erythrus ardens.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insect #repeatPattern #surfaceDesign
Find it in my #Spoonflower
https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/20005184-beetle-collection-block-print-by-minouette
The species is not only dimorphic with different male and female forms but also the females are polymorphic (that is, they come in different forms) and with mimetic forms (mimicking other species). This one is the Female alcanor form (with the swallow tails).
Find it in my #Spoonflower shop! https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/19940088-papilio-memnon-great-mormon-butterfly-red-ixora-flowers-by-minouette
#butterfly #repeatPattern #surfaceDesign #linocut #invertebrate #sciart #printmaking #mastoArt
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the anemone from its predators and parasites and nitrogen excreted by the anemonefish increases the number of algae incorporated into the tissue of their hosts, which aids the anemone in tissue growth and regeneration. The fish even aerate their hosts with their movements and may lure anemone pray with their bright colours.
#pattern #surfaceDesign #linocut #printmaking #clownfish #anemone #anemonefish #sciart #mastoArt
Here’s my original linocut: https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1749284320
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& babies develop inside their mother until large enough to be born, in batches of 4–6, as colourless miniatures of the parents! Peripatoides novaezealandiae is a species complex of velvet worms in the genus Peripatoides, found throughout NZ. My print was made based on photos of P. aurorbis, but all the P. novaezealandiae have no morphological characters that distinguish them.
https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/19945769-blue-velvet-worm-on-raspberry-purple-by-minouette
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #pattern #surfaceDesign #invertebrates #velvetWorm #mastoArt